RxDoctor Payments Data

Ronald Bensing, OD

Optometrist · Ephrata, PANPI 1679532790

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,946in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $23.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$827
  • Coopervision Inc.$428
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$409
  • Alcon$69
  • Shire North American Group Inc$66
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$64
  • plus $83 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,92899%
  • Education$181%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$1,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$39,438
Medicare patients
217
Services billed
447

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Latanoprost95$926
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat36$654
Timolol Maleate13$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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